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Self-directed work teams: implementation and organizational impact

Self-directed work teams are becoming increasingly popular in both manufacturing and service organizations, because of their positive characteristics of focusing on team contributions and solutions, collaboration, continuous improvement, competency and positive results to productivity.

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McGrath's three approaches to natural theology and cosmogonic myth

What exactly are the three approaches to natural theology? According to McGrath, Natural Theology does in fact have three very specific and unique approaches, which are identified and explained as follows:

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Time management and stress reduction in college students

There are many different things that can cause stress for the college student. Managing their time effectively and having satisfaction with the leisure time that they have are issues that must be addressed by many college students (McKean & Misra, 2000).

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Power and leadership in Genesis, Gilgamesh, and Lysistrata

Power and leadership are not exactly the same thing, of course, but they are inextricably interrelated for without power, effective leadership would not be possible and without leadership, power would be rendered useless.

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Gender differences in stigma surrounding depression

The purpose of this study is an exploration of whether stigma exist surrounding depression, and whether females are more likely to be stigmatized or categorized as having depression than males are of the same peer group.

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Informed consent and participant protection in design research ethics

Ethics has been regarded as fundamental practice with reference to the all design research procedures, and it the responsibility of the research to ensure that the contents and the scope of the research is ethical and moral, the design research shall be conducted 'within an ethic of respect for…

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Personality development shaped by environmental experiences and interactions

There are several personality theories in existence, focusing on the basic ideas of human behavior, and the origin of that behavior.

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Defining violence and examining video game effects on youth

"It depends," Eisenman (2004) stresses in regard to whether playing violent video games, one of the primary contemporary substitutions for yesteryears' play, increases violence in youth.

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Pornography exposure and objectification of women in college males

No matter what the atmosphere might have been at home, at college, the American male finds himself in an environment where he is surrounded with sexually-explicit stimuli, such as advertisements, posters, magazines, music and media.

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Comparing person-centered and cognitive-behavioral therapy approaches

The objective of this work is to discuss the person-centered theory and to discuss the cognitive-behavioral theory. This work will examine in detail the concepts of the person-centered theory and as well, the microskills and techniques that students would expect to be effective with this theory.

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